Creamy Vegan Turmeric Mac and Cheese

September 27, 2018

Creamy Vegan Turmeric Mac and Cheese

I’ve been cleaning out my blog like I clean out my closet. I hate clutter; so every once and awhile I like to go through my things and get rid of what I know I will never use. Same goes with recipes. I’ll go through all the recipes on S4B, and make a list of ones I want update the photos or taste test again.

This Creamy Vegan Turmeric Mac and Cheese was more of a photo update, but I wanted to make sure this sauce was as good as I remembered. And it IS. The idea comes from Pinch of Yum (my favorite food blog/bloggers ever), so you know it’s going to be amazing. I took a spin on her cashew cream sauce and made a turmeric version that not only gives you all the Mac and cheese feels, but all the turmeric benefits!

Creamy Vegan Turmeric Mac and Cheese

2017-11-12 17:14:23

Serves 4

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Ingredients

1 cup of cashews, soaked in room temperature water for at least 4 hours (or soaked in very hot water for 15 minutes)

1/2 cup of unsweetened almond milk

2 garlic cloves or 1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder

1/4 cup of olive oil

1 tablespoon of turmeric powder

a few generous dashes sea salt and black pepper to taste

1 box of pasta of choice

Instructions

drain and rinse the soaked cashews and add them to a blender/food processor with the almond milk, garlic, olive oil, turmeric powder, and a few dashes of sea salt and pepper and blend until creamy and smooth. keep in the blender.

cook pasta according to package directions.

reserve 1 cup of pasta water, and drain the rest of the pasta.

slowly add the pasta water to the turmeric sauce, blending until a thinner creamy consistency is reached (*you may not need to use all the water).